Sentences with phrase «humans and apes for»

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Given 20 years per generation, and going for 7 million years (estimated time of ancient ape to modern human), you have a possible 21 million gene changes.

«In its 4.6 billion years circling the sun, the Earth has harbored an increasing diversity of life forms: for the last 3.6 billion years, simple cells (prokaryotes); for the last 3.4 billion years, cyanobacteria performing ph - otosynthesis; for the last 2 billion years, complex cells (eukaryotes); for the last 1 billion years, multicellular life; for the last 600 million years, simple animals; for the last 550 million years, bilaterians, animals with a front and a back; for the last 500 million years, fish and proto - amphibians; for the last 475 million years, land plants; for the last 400 million years, insects and seeds; for the last 360 million years, amphibians; for the last 300 million years, reptiles; for the last 200 million years, mammals; for the last 150 million years, birds; for the last 130 million years, flowers; for the last 60 million years, the primates, for the last 20 million years, the family H - ominidae (great apes); for the last 2.5 million years, the genus H - omo (human predecessors); for the last 200,000 years, anatomically modern humans.»

for the last 3.6 billion years, simple cells (prokaryotes); for the last 3.4 billion years, cyanobacteria performing photosynthesis; for the last 2 billion years, complex cells (eukaryotes); for the last 1 billion years, multicellular life; for the last 600 million years, simple animals; for the last 550 million years, bilaterians, animals with a front and a back; for the last 500 million years, fish and proto - amphibians; for the last 475 million years, land plants; for the last 400 million years, insects and seeds; for the last 360 million years, amphibians; for the last 300 million years, reptiles; for the last 200 million years, ma - mmals; for the last 150 million years, birds; for the last 130 million years, flowers; for the last 60 million years, the primates, for the last 20 million years, the family H - ominidae (great apes); for the last 2.5 million years, the genus H - omo (human predecessors); for the last 200,000 years, anatomically modern humans.

it amazes me that I still haven't seen an ape evolve into a human being and that science can still not figure out the human brain or for that matter how we happen to be perfectly positioned in the universe..

You can't deny the scientific evidence that continuely points to the creation of the universe millions and millions of years ago and evolution of humans from apes unless your intention is for the U.S. to continue to fall behind the rest of the world in math and science and become the villiage idiot.

Rather, the human race itself is merely a bridge between apes and overhuman, 22 who is the only alternative for Nietzsche to nihilism.

The Colonel's soldiers and «donkeys» (apes who have betrayed their own kind and now serve humans) are all tattooed or branded with the Alpha and Omega symbols, the same mark painted on an American flag for the military until Harrelson commands.

These can be «read» using the anatomy of modern apes and humans as guides for their interpretation.

The fossil provides the most detailed look to date at a member of a line of African primates that are now candidates for central players in the evolution of present - day apes and humans.

n. Umbrella term for the primate superfamily, Hominoidea: gibbons, great apes (gorillas, orangutans, and chimpanzees), and humans.

TEMPE, Arizona — As a species of seeming feeble, naked apes, we humans are unlikely candidates for power in a natural world where dominant adaptations can boil down to speed, agility, jaws and claws.

Some mid — 20th - century comparative anatomists were so impressed with the profound differences between human and extant ape feet that they postulated a deep, pre-ape origin for hominids.

EASY RIDER Gut bacteria have been passed down from the ancestors of humans and African apes for millennia, evolving alongside their hosts, says a new study that looked at bacteria from gorillas, bonobos, chimpanzees and humans.

When Skinner and his colleagues looked at the metacarpals of early human species and neanderthals — who also used stone flakes for tasks like scraping and butchering — they found bone ends that were shaped like modern human bones, and unlike ape bones.

Called «feathered apes» for their simianlike smarts, crows use tools, understand physics, and recognize themselves and humans.

Additional support could come from the chimpanzee genome, which may allow researchers to clock when the genes for slow - twitch muscle fibers — crucial for running long distances and plentiful in people but not chimps — diverged in the common evolutionary history of humans and apes.

• A touch of monkey business affected our article on technology for animals: orang - utans become sexually active at 8 years, and it is human visitors — not other apes — that juveniles enjoy poking with sticks (29 November, p 44).

Then, comparing the environmental conditions such as climate, vegetation and human impact at these locations to sites across tropical Africa where there was an absence of apes, the researchers were able to more precisely calculate the «suitable environmental conditions» — or habitat — necessary for apes to live.

The technique is the «gold standard» for metabolic studies, and the researchers did a «terrific job» using it to compare the total calories burned daily by apes and humans, says biological anthropologist William Leonard of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

That's the conclusion of a new study that, for the first time, measures precisely how many calories humans and apes burn each day.

Since 1993, when Singer and Italian philosopher Paola Cavalieri established the group, its members have advocated for a United Nations declaration that great apes, like humans, are entitled to life, liberty, and protection from torture.

«This study confirms the value of a «One Health» approach to gerontology and the neurobiology of aging for the benefit of humans and apes,» Erwin added.

«We know that interbreeding played a role in human evolution, and now we know it was important for the great apes too,» says Hvilsom.

Aside from humans, no other animal that has been studied, not even monkeys or apes, has proved to use such hemispheric specialization for sound processing — meaning that the left brain is better at processing fast sounds, and the right processing slow ones.

Marc Hauser is best known for studies suggesting that monkeys are capable of mental feats once thought to be the preserve of humans and great apes.

After taking measurements and collecting observations on nine living primate species, including humans, Carrier concluded that the living apes with the shortest legs for their body size, like gorillas and orangutans, are those that spend the least time in trees.

The sensory system is therefore extremely interesting for research purposes, as it is anatomically very similar in mice, apes and humans.

Using props and examples from the fossil record, the scientists showed how the very adaptations that have made humans so successful — such as upright walking and our big, complex brains — have been the result of constant remodeling of an ancient ape body plan that was originally used for life in the trees.

It's now possible to not only model disease using the cells, but also to compare iPSCs from humans to those of our closest living relatives --- great apes, with which we share a majority of genes --- for insight into what molecular and cellular features make us human.

Tickling and wrestling are the typical laugh triggers for apes, and probably the original ones for humans.

Scientists from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment in Tübingen and from the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt examined the demise of the giant ape Gigantopithecus.

And that might be the universal ability the researchers set out to find: «I will start looking for things which are unique to humans amongst the great apes and universal across cultures,» Haun notAnd that might be the universal ability the researchers set out to find: «I will start looking for things which are unique to humans amongst the great apes and universal across cultures,» Haun notand universal across cultures,» Haun notes.

Your September article on human evolution was clear and beautifully illustrated, but I am amazed that there was no mention of the aquatic ape theory, which has much better answers for some of the questions posed than the establishment theories Zimmer noted.

«Not only does the model work for explaining differences in basic molar design, but it is also powerful enough to accurately predict the range of variants in size, shape, and additional cusp presence, from the most subtle to the most extreme, for most apes, fossil hominins, and modern humans,» says Ortiz.

Savage - Rumbaugh and her family members have virtually lived alongside the apes for 40 years and raised them «bi-culturally» with both ape and human «parents».

Perhaps a larger implication is that the ability to learn new words for the same object may extend way beyond humans, even back 6 million years to the last common ancestor of humans and apes before they went their separate ways.

A gigantic ape standing 10 feet tall and weighing up to 1,200 pounds lived alongside humans for over a million years, researchers say.

To the research team's great surprise, the predictions of the model held up, not just for modern humans, but for over 17 ape and hominin species spread out across millions of years of higher primate evolution and diversification.

This compares with 6 and 12 years in modern humans and 3 and 5 years for modern apes, indicating that H. erectus was starting down the road of modern dental development.

«This study confirms the value of a «One Health» approach to gerontology and the neurobiology of ageing for the benefit of humans and apes,» Erwin added.

For example, they note that Darwinius has a short snout and a deep jaw — two features that are found in monkeys, apes, and humans.

But the most striking difference is that, for Gish, skull ER 1470 and the Homo erectus fossils are apes or monkeys; for Lubenow, they are fully and completely human.

(For more information on how these two species split, read «What separates humans from chimps and other apes?»

It was a controversial interpretation for many, as it contradicted religious beliefs about human origins; the short, stocky limb bones and the skull's oversized brow suggested an ape - like ancestor that did not fit in with the biblical idea of God's creation.

While there are no habiline fossils for which both brain and body size can be measured, it is fairly clear that they were smaller than humans, and many times smaller than male gorillas, the only apes with comparable brain sizes.

Today's humans, apes, and (some) monkeys, for instance, all have three types of cone cells in the retina.

The Arcus Great Apes Fund - provides support for conservation efforts that promote the survival of the Great Apes in the wild and provides support for sanctuaries that offer safety and freedom from invasive research and other forms of human exploitation.

For more information, read «Other Origins: the Search for the Giant Ape in Human Prehistory», by Russell Ciochon, John Olsen and Jamie James (199For more information, read «Other Origins: the Search for the Giant Ape in Human Prehistory», by Russell Ciochon, John Olsen and Jamie James (199for the Giant Ape in Human Prehistory», by Russell Ciochon, John Olsen and Jamie James (1990).

c3) dedicated to supporting Washoe's remaining family, Tatu and Loulis, in their home at Fauna Foundation; studying communication in all primates and ways to improve captive conditions for all apes; and promoting peaceful coexistence between human and non-human animals through education and awareness.

I am wondering what your commentary is on the diet of wild adult chimpanzees vs. the nutrient make - up of chimp milk for thier babies... I would thinking looking at the great apes and studying what adults eat in the wild vs. the nutrient makeup of the breast milk would give us an indicator of what we humans should be eating as adult in comparison to our own breast milk make - up.